Saturday, May 26, 2012

Angles In America

“Angels In America” is a second-rate play written by a second-rate playwright who happens to be gay, and because he has written a play about being gay, and about AIDS, no one—and I mean no one—is going to call “Angels In America” the overwrought, coarse, posturing, formulaic mess that it is.

Lee Siegel, writing in The New Republic in 2003

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I, for one, would be happy to call both play and playwright second-rate—except neither play nor playwright rises to that level.

2 comments:

I saw the TV series based on the play, on DVD, a few years ago. I never got through the thing. The play is an abomination, and I would not rate it at any level in the positive range.

I think, however, that "Angles in America" is a very, very fine play. The actor - I forget his name - was superb as the mathematician Euclid.

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Alex Ross wrote yesterday on his blog, "The Rest is 'Roids," that he was "mildly dissatisfied" with the "Salome" at Carnegie Thursday night. Perhaps he was so because he couldn't find Hitler in the audience.

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I am a lawyer, born and reared in the Twin Cities. Family is everything to me. My mother I adore and my father I worship (my father is also a lawyer). I have two older brothers whom I love dearly: one, 39, is married and has a young son and daughter and works as a financial analyst; the other is 36 and single and works as a civil engineer. My brothers and I were dispersed for years while being schooled and while establishing careers (Boston, Palo Alto, London, New York; Ames, Fort Collins, Denver; Princeton, Vienna, Washington, D.C., Boston), but we are all home now—and, it is my hope, we are all home for good. The newest member of my family is Joshua, whom I met in Washington while I was in my last year of law school and while Josh was in his last year of undergraduate studies. We immediately became inseparable and have faced the world together practically from the day we met. We have recently returned to the Twin Cities from Boston, where Josh gained his Juris Doctor. We have many interests and participate in numerous and diverse activities, yet we are mostly homebodies, playing sports, reading history tomes (and passionately discussing them) and spending time with family.